Abstract
in many years. The novel is narrated by seven different voices- all members of the Domingo family- who circle around, retell, and revise the story of Magdalena Domingo, her union with Barto Domingo, and the birth of her mysterious frog child (called the crapo-child) on the island of Corpus Christi, Antoni's fictional re-creation of Trinidad, about a century ago. The voices include perspectives representing three of the major ethnohistoric elements of the West Indies- European, African, and East Indian; indeed, the central section of the novel, related by Magdalena herself, is patterned after the Ramayana but also reiterates, in yet another version,
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